Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Well, finally, I guess I was around twelve, the principal at the school paid a call on my family, and told them that in his opinion I was 'subnormal.' He thought it would be the humane action to send me to some special school equipped to handle backward brats. Whatever they may have privately felt, my family as a whole took official umbrage, and pronto packed me off to a psychiatric study clinic where I had my IQ inspected. I enjoyed it thoroughly and-guess what?-came home a genius, so proclaimed by science. My former teachers refused...
...mixed blessings the U.S. conferred on conquered Japan was the abrupt introduction of equal rights for women. Japanese women now have the right to vote, the right to sue for divorce (some 10,000 exercise it annually), and Japanese wives-except in the most backward rural areas-no longer must dutifully walk ten paces behind their husbands...
...angle. "Absolutely unclimbable," said Bonatti. But there was no going back. Leaning out into 2,000 ft. of air ("the worst fear I ever had to overcome"), Bonatti finally found a tiny fissure in the rock. He pounded in steel pitons, and from them he and Gobbi hung backward over nothing while easing out from under the rock to reach the sheer green ice face above. There, with Ice Expert Gobbi leading, they climbed 2,000 ft. more, camped the second night on another inches-wide ledge in a freezing wind...
...General Manuel Odría, Argentina's General Juan Perón, Colombia's General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. For a bird-of-a-feather to help him celebrate Venezuelan Independence Day, President Pérez Jiménez could find only President Alfredo Stroessner of tiny, backward Paraguay. Flags of the two countries flew side by side all over Caracas last week as General Stroessner and a party of 30 top henchmen played guests of honor for the 146th anniversary of Venezuela's declaration of independence from Spain...
...left free of this 20th century improvement. "Don't worry," an aide whispered, "he'll win her over, but it will take time." For an account of some greater triumphs achieved by the Sultan of Brunei in bringing the benefits of civilization to his newly wealthy, backward land, see FOREIGN NEWS, The Well-Oiled State...